Simone Weil s Apologetic Use of Literature Her Christological Interpretation of Ancient Greek TextsSimone Weil s Apologetic Use of Literature Her Christological Interpretation of Ancient Greek Texts

2007-12-062007-12-06 Marie Cabaud MeaneyMarie Cabaud Meaney

Despite or perhaps because of this apologetic slant, Weil's readings uncover new layers of these familiar texts: Antigone is a Christological figure, combating Creon's ideology of the State by a folly of love that leads her to a Passion ...

Author: Marie Cabaud Meaney

Publisher: Clarendon Press

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Marie Cabaud Meaney looks at Simone Weil's Christological interpretations of the Sophoclean Antigone and Electra, the Iliad and Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound. Apart from her article on the Iliad, Weil's interpretations are not widely known, probably because they are fragmentary and boldly twist the classics, sometimes even contradicting their literal meaning. Meaney argues that Weil had an apologetic purpose in mind: to the spiritual illsof ideology and fanaticism in World War II she wanted to give a spiritual answer, namely the re-Christianization of Europe to which she (though not baptized herself) wished to contribute in some way. To the intellectual agnostics of her day she intended to show through her interpretations that the texts they cherished so much could only be fullyunderstood in light of Christ; to the Catholics she sought to reveal that Catholicism was much more universal than generally believed, since Greek culture already embodied the Christian spirit - perhaps to a greater extent than the Catholic Church ever had. Despite or perhaps because of this apologetic slant, Weil's readings uncover new layers of these familiar texts: Antigone is a Christological figure, combating Creon's ideology of the State by a folly of love that leads her to a Passion inwhich she experiences an abandonment similar to that of Christ on the Cross. The Iliad depicts a world as yet unredeemed, but which traces objectively the reign of force to which both oppressors and oppressed are subject. Prometheus Bound becomes the vehicle of her theodicy, in which she shows thatsuffering only makes sense in light of the Cross. But the pinnacle of the spiritual life is described in Electra which, she believes, reflects a mystical experience - something Weil herself had experienced unexpectedly when 'Christ himself came down and took her' in November 1938. In order to do justice to Weil's readings, Meaney not only traces her apologetic intentions and explains the manner in which she recasts familiar Christian concepts (thereby letting them come alive -something every good apologist should be able to do), but also situates them among standard approaches used by classicists today, thereby showing that her interpretations truly contribute something new.

Simone WeilSimone Weil

2012-01-012012-01-01 Palle YourgrauPalle Yourgrau

A. Fineman, in Sylvie Weil, Chez Les Weil. Simone Weil, Waiting for God, trans. E
. Craufurd (New York, 2001), p. 73. Cabaud Meaney, Simone Weil's Apologetic
Use of Literature: Her Christological Interpretation ofAncient Greek Texts (Oxford,
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Author: Palle Yourgrau

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Simone Weil, legendary French philosopher, political activist, and mystic, died in 1943 at a sanatorium in Kent, England, at the age of thirty-four. During her brief lifetime, Weil was a paradox of asceticism and reclusive introversion who also maintained a teaching career and an active participation in politics. In this concise biography, Palle Yourgrau outlines Weil’s influential life and work and demonstrates how she tried to apply philosophy to everyday life. Born in Paris to a cultivated Jewish-French family, Weil excelled at philosophy, and her empathetic political conscience channeled itself into political engagement and activism on behalf of the working class. Yourgrau assesses Weil’s controversial critique of Judaism as well as her radical re-imagination of Christianity—following a powerful religious experience in 1937—in light of Plato’s philosophy as a bridge between human suffering and divine perfection. In Simone Weil, Yourgrau provides careful, concise readings of Weil’s work while exploring how Weil has come to be seen as both a modern saint and a bête noir, a Jew accused of having abandoned her own people in their hour of greatest need.

Simone Weil and Continental PhilosophySimone Weil and Continental Philosophy

2017-11-082017-11-08 A. Rebecca Rozelle-StoneA. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone

Richard Rees (London: Oxford University Press, 1968), 170–98. 41. See Marie
Cabaud Meaney, Simone Weil's Apologetic Use of Literature: Her Christological
Interpretations of Ancient Greek Texts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), ...

Author: A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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Offering new insight into the pertinence of Simone Weil’s thought, this volume situates her in the Continental discourses which constituted her philosophical background, her milieu, and which frequently reflected her departures from her contemporaries.

Venice SavedVenice Saved

2019-06-132019-06-13 Simone WeilSimone Weil

Weil, S. (2014), On the Abolition of All Political Parties, tr. by Simon Leys, New
York: New York Review. ... Cabaud Meaney, M. (2007), Simone Weil's Apologetic
Use of Literature: Her Christological Interpretations of Ancient Greek Texts,
Oxford ...

Author: Simone Weil

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Towards the end of her life, the French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil (1909-43) was working on a tragedy, Venice Saved. Appearing here in English for the first time, this play explores the realisation of Weil's own thoughts on tragedy. A figure of affliction, a central theme in Weil's religious metaphysics, the central character offers a unique insight into Weil's broader philosophical interest in truth and justice, and provides a fresh perspective on the wider conception of tragedy itself. The play depicts the plot by a group of Spanish mercenaries to sack Venice in 1618 and how it fails when one conspirator, Jaffier, betrays them to the Venetian authorities, because he feels compassion for the city's beauty. The edition includes notes on the play by the translators as well as introductory material on: the life of Weil; the genesis and purport of the play; Weil and the tragic; the issues raised by translating Venice Saved. With additional suggestions for further reading, the volume opens up an area of interest and research: the literary Weil.

Faith ReasonFaith Reason

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tion on demand , the use of the unborn for research , the growing numbers of
victims of euthanasia , etc. ... 2002 , 39-49 and in my doctoral thesis , Literature
and Apologetics : Simone Weil's Christological Interpretations of Ancient Greek
Texts ...

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American Reference Books Annual 2000American Reference Books Annual 2000

20002000 Bohdan S. WynarBohdan S. Wynar

... but not Gerard Manley Hopkins , Desert Shield and Desert Storm but not
Desert Fathers , Jean - Paul Sartre but not Simone Weil , and the Jesus
Movement but not the Jesus Seminar . ... Its purpose is not to be unbiased . ... The
volume examines every key issue , person , and concept related to Christian
apologetics .

Author: Bohdan S. Wynar

Publisher: Libraries Unltd Incorporated

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Thorough and in-depth coverage of reference materials is at your fingertips with American Reference Books Annual. With nearly 1600 descriptive and evaluative entries, it continues its tradition as a comprehensive review source for reference works published or distributed in the United States. It encompasses the entire subject spectrum, covering such areas as general reference, history, education, literature, urban studies, economics and business, and science and technology. Some CD-ROMs and Canadian reference publications are covered.

Twayne s World Authors SeriesTwayne s World Authors Series

19661966

101 Laurence's use of the four elements of earth , air , fire , and water in the
Manawaka cycle further illustrates the ... To Simone Weil's definition of faith as
intelligence illumined by love , George Grant adds that " love " is attention to ...
103 It is one of the continuing paradoxes of literature that it achieves universality
through the depiction of specific regions and cultures . ... Laurence uses , without
apology , the rhythms of the Canadian speaking voice to recreate her regional
roots .

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Margaret LaurenceMargaret Laurence

19811981 Patricia A. MorleyPatricia A. Morley

101 Laurence ' s use of the four elements of earth , air , fire , and water in the
Manawaka cycle further illustrates the ... To Simone Weil ' s definition of faith as
intelligence illumined by love , George Grant adds that “ love ” is attention to ...
103 It is one of the continuing paradoxes of literature that it achieves universality
through the depiction of specific regions and cultures . ... Laurence uses , without
apology , the rhythms of the Canadian speaking voice to recreate her regional
roots .

Author: Patricia A. Morley

Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers

ISBN: UOM:39015000631674

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Simone WeilSimone Weil

19641964 Jacques CabaudJacques Cabaud

In her letter of 30th March 1936 , Simone deplored the distrust that had been
shown towards her and the opposition to her plan for ... I am simply incapable of
using artfulness , for any purpose whatever , towards people whom I esteem . ...
And , by way apology of sorts : ' Don't suppose that my concern with social
matters makes me lose all joy in life . ... was a hundred times nearer to the people
than the whole of French literature , classical and modern , if only they could
understand it .

Author: Jacques Cabaud

Publisher: London, Harvill P

ISBN: UOM:39015012176908

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Books for College Libraries HumanitiesBooks for College Libraries Humanities

19881988 Association of College and Research LibrariesAssociation of College and Research Libraries

English ] Lectures on p Lentures on philosophy / Simone Weil : Cambridge
translated by Hugh Price ; with an introd . by ... New York : Pantheon Books ,
c1976 . xiv , 576 p . , [ 12 ] leaves of plates : ill . ; 24 cm . ... Judaism – Apologetic
works 4 .

Author: Association of College and Research Libraries

Publisher: Chicago : American Library Association

ISBN: 0838933572

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Dying for IdeasDying for Ideas

2015-02-262015-02-26 Costica BradatanCostica Bradatan

Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint (London: Profile Books, 2007) Wrathall, Mark. ...
The Shorter Socratic Writings (“Apology of Socrates to the Jury,” “Oeconomicus,”
and “Symposium”) Edited, with ... Simone Weil (London: Reaktion Books, 2011) ...

Author: Costica Bradatan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781472525826

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What do Socrates, Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Thomas More, and Jan Patocka have in common? First, they were all faced one day with the most difficult of choices: stay faithful to your ideas and die or renounce them and stay alive. Second, they all chose to die. Their spectacular deaths have become not only an integral part of their biographies, but are also inseparable from their work. A "death for ideas" is a piece of philosophical work in its own right; Socrates may have never written a line, but his death is one of the greatest philosophical best-sellers of all time. Dying for Ideas explores the limit-situation in which philosophers find themselves when the only means of persuasion they can use is their own dying bodies and the public spectacle of their death. The book tells the story of the philosopher's encounter with death as seen from several angles: the tradition of philosophy as an art of living; the body as the site of self-transcending; death as a classical philosophical topic; taming death and self-fashioning; finally, the philosophers' scapegoating and their live performance of a martyr's death, followed by apotheosis and disappearance into myth. While rooted in the history of philosophy, Dying for Ideas is an exercise in breaking disciplinary boundaries. This is a book about Socrates and Heidegger, but also about Gandhi's "fasting unto death" and self-immolation; about Girard and Passolini, and self-fashioning and the art of the essay.